Lib.rs

This crate contains the core API to access Pijul repositories.

The key object is a Repository, on which Txn (immutable transactions) and MutTxn (mutable transactions) can be started, to perform a variety of operations.

Another important object is a Patch, which encodes two different pieces of information:

• Information about deleted and inserted lines between two versions of a file.

• Information about file moves, additions and deletions.

The standard layout of a repository is defined in module fs_representation, and mainly consists of a directory called .pijul at the root of the repository, containing:

• a directory called pristine, containing a Sanakirja database storing most of the repository information.

• a directory called patches, actually containing the patches, where each patch is a gzipped compression of the bincode encoding of the patch::Patch type.

At the moment, users of this library, such as the Pijul command-line tool, may use other files in the .pijul directory, such as user preferences, or information about remote branches and repositories.